The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-29

'EEw 0RIRAxs, April Is. 1852.
81 leave my swords 10 Miss Roxsna Flor
ence. D. X. TWlGGS.
ION this record Il would appear that
Miss Florence, or, II che be dead, her
legal representatives, hss some show
OF title as against the heirs, II the
United States should waive their
own"
This publication, It will be observed,
was made before there was any GER
tsinty that the government was going
TO give quit.clzim to the swords, and
before Mrs. R1wena Guedella bad put
n any claim, or indicated that Rowena
Florence was yet in the land OF the
living. The Twiggs swords are valued
at about $4,000, being inlaid with
diamonds, rubies aud other precious
stones. They were all three given for
gallantry In the Mexican war-one by
| Congress, one by the State OF Georgia
and one by the city OF Augusta, Ga,
his home, in which city be died Sep
temt or 10, 1862, five months after But
ler's approach had driven him from
New Orleans.
'THE sUBJRoT OF oLRoNARGARIEE
will be treated In the next bulletin
| from the Agricultural Department"
taid Commissioner Colman yesterday,
"and the people Of this and other
countries will receive full and explicit
| instructions how to detect the pres
ence OF deleteIious matter In this most
important table luxury. No later
than this forenoon l received through
the Secretary OF State communica-
ton from Baron Fava, the Italian
Minister, in which he requests infor-
nation as to the scientific tests used
by our government to detect .oleomar-
gsrine, butterine, sueine and other
compounds made to supersede butter.
| In his communication 1t is expressly
stated that the Italian Government
had taken up the question in the in
terest OF Its citz ,ns and desires to
amp out, il possible, q practice
and traffic that should be discouraged.
In my reply shall not mice mat
ters at all, but shall give the result OF
investigations made by this depart
ment, from which it appears that
even the carcasses of horses, dogs and
swine have been utilized In the man
uiacture OF oleomargarine, and the
manufa ,turers were not particular
about the condition or age OF the
meat and bones, either. / had per-
sonal experience at my home in st.
Louis when l went TO butchers shop
to get some meat for several hunting
dogs that kept at the time. In the
refuse barrel at this place ! saw often
maggots and fly blown meat was con.
spicuous. When l asked the propri-
etor what he intended 10 do with such
ma erlal, he said it was intended for
butter factory. BY the use Of acids
and other chemical preparations, the
manufacturers OF counterfeit butter
are enabled to destroy all Offensive
odors, and some OF them use about
one fourth pure butter to give their
wares good appearance and taste,
and thereby many persons considered
expsrts are deceived"
The Commissioner continued: sit
Is true that there is agreat deal OF cap
ital invested In the olsomargarine
business, particularly in the West, but
that does not Justify its manufacture
In my opinion, for 1t 10 against the
people and should be frowned down.
Chemical and microscopical tests
have been In progress under the
supervision OF Profs. Wiley and Tsy.
lor, OF the Agricultural Department,
for several months, and the result of
their observations will be OF great
benefit to the consumers OF butter"
THE ENGLISH SPARROW.
The forthcoming report OF the De-
parlmel u OF Agriculture on the En-
glish sparrow will bea very intere ting
document. II will contain about 400
printed pages in which will appear the
expsrienceJ OF about 5000 people with
this destructive little rascal. 1t is
doubtful There is another bird in the
world so unanimously condemned as
q nuisance as this alien. DR.. Merriam,
the ornithologst of the department,
who has arge Of the preparation OF
the report, Gays that the indictment
against the sparrow is q terrible one.
He has scarcely a friend in the whole
country. Ia California he is hated as
cordially as the Chinese; but while it
is admitted that the Mongolian may
be made a useful citizen there is not
, even monopolis,ic.employsr OF coolie
labor who can see the slightest use In
the sparrow. He is accused Of doing
, frighfu damage to the vineyards Of
4 the Pacific slope. He always selects
/ the most luscious punches OF grapes
and he invariably sticks his bill into
the very best berries on the bunch.
Farmers who devote their time to the
cultivation OF grain report that the
spATows, wherever they are thick, do
:, ffightful damage to cereals, Market
l. gardener land thelraiser OF small fruits
y in the vicinity of cities, gay that since
+, the sparrows began to multiply the
o profits OF market gardening have al
n most vanished. The only known USE
1t for the pest ia as a substitute for reed
y birds, One man in Albany, N. Va re
ports that he sells hundreds OF doz snI
D. Of sparrows every month to the res
d taurants In that city, where they ar,
y served up to New York legislators al
n the toothsome little thief OF the South
n ern rice fields. Sparrows make excel
3, lent table birds, and 1t is thought tina
% the only effectual method OF curtailinI
L. their increase will be to induce tn
ninhl UdHo w NobOh bhChA AOi AOOu pun
poses.
10 THE CURE OF CONSUMPTION.
es The medical journals OF the countr
n, have been discussing for some tim
I'd and with a great deal OF interest
10 cure for consumption discovered by
u French physician in 1888. This neV
no treatment, from which 20 much ia ez
I'd pected, consists OF the injection int
q, the bowels OF carbonic acid gas i'm
q prsgnsted with a small quantity G
n. sulphuretted hydrogen. The theor
IN is that this gas is taken up throug
in the veinous system, aud that the su
n phur contained therein coming i
he contact with the suppurated portion
n. OF the lungs arrests the progress OF tn
I'D disease and in time effects q curI
~ The treatment has been tried by
u great many physicians with wonder
Dc full results. A firm in PHILADELPHIA
AL which makes a specially OF physician
&, supplies has begun the manufactuI